When you perform a full Confluence search, Confluence may offer you an alternative spelling of your search query. The alternative spelling will appear next to the words 'Did you mean'. By default, this feature is disabled. You can enable it as described below.
To enable the 'Did You Mean' feature,
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Go to the Confluence 'Administration Console':
- Choose Browse > Confluence Admin. The 'Administrator Access' login screen will be displayed.
- Enter your password and click Confirm. You will be temporarily logged into a secure session to access the 'Administration Console'.
- Select 'General Configuration' in the left-hand panel.
- In the 'General Configuration' screen, click 'Edit'.
- Select 'On' beside 'Did You Mean'.
If you have no 'Did you mean' feature index or you have not yet created it, this option will not be available. To create this index, click 'build the did-you-mean index' and on the subsequent page, click 'Build' in the 'Did You Mean Index' section. Then return to the 'General Configuration' screen in Edit mode. - Click 'Save'.
Languages and Locales
The 'Did You Mean' feature supports only the English language. In addition, the 'Did You Mean' index requires the built-in UK-English locale (en_UK). If your Confluence site uses a different language pack, such as English (US), the 'Did You Mean' feature will not work. You will see an error message like this:
For Did You Mean both the indexing language and the global default language must be set to English.
For more information about how the 'Did You Mean' feature works, please refer to the user guide.
You can track the request to support other languages by watching issue CONF-14768.
4 Comments
Hide/Show CommentsMar 03, 2009
Anonymous
when do you think the "did you mean" feature is available to other Languages (i.e. German)?
Mar 03, 2009
Azwandi Mohd Aris [Atlassian]
Hi there,
As far as I am concerned, support for other languages is not in the pipeline yet. However, I have created an improvement request at http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-14768 to track this requirement. Feel free to chip in, cast your vote and 'watch' the issue. You might also want to learn how we schedule new features and improvements in our products.
Cheers,
Azwandi
Aug 25, 2010
Joseph Sheargold
Hi,
Which version of confluence was the "Did you mean" feature implemented in? My company is currently using 2.8.2, would we be able to activate this feature?
Cheers,
Joe
Sep 06, 2010
Husein Alatas [Atlassian]
Hi Joseph,
It's started in Confluence 2.10.
I am afraid you won't be able to use the feature in Confluence below 2.10. I would highly recommend you to upgrade your instance to the latest version so you can benefit from all the new features/improvements. You might want to refer to this page for more details.
Hope that clarifies.
Cheers,
Husein
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